Troubles with the mod "The Demon" - please help

[rebelatnight]

So I downloaded "The Demon" and tried installing it with daupdater.exe and it gave a nonspecific error message didn't think much about since I was installing a few other mods at the time. I later tried installing it with DAModder and it crashes the program. EVERY. TIME.

 

Now whenever I try starting a new game, I'm locked into a single "Grey Warden" origin and unable to select another one. I've been reading around the forums and it seems that modules like "The Demon" are incompatible with the base game and Awakening. and cause this type of problem. "The Demon" was the only one of these I was installing; all my other mods were for the Origins campaign.

 

My main question is this: is it possible that during these failed installations that the mod managed to still drop files into my Dragon Age folder? I've been looking through what feels like all my directories for changes but I can't find any! I can't install it properly because it fails every time and I can't confirm if there's any files overriding the character creator.

 

Any ideas or insights would be much appreciated!

 

Edit 1: It also crashed DAO Modmanager when I try opening the file in that program.

Edit 2: If I can't solve this problem after a while, I'm just going to do a fresh install of Origins. I really don't want to since I have 100+ mods installed; I'd rather solve the issue of this mod, but I will if this gets too frustrating.

Edited December 26, 2018 by rebelatnight

[theskymoves]

All unofficial standalone campaigns should never be installed when playing the official content, because of issues like the one you've encountered re origins.

 

DAModder does not always do a good job of removing files when uninstalling mods; most often the failure is leaving behind ERF packages in [user]\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\data.

 

(This is one reason I recommend using DAO-ModManager instead, having myself encountered a similar game-breaking issue with the efficacy of DAModder.)

[rebelatnight]

 

All unofficial standalone campaigns should never be installed when playing the official content, because of issues like the one you've encountered re origins.

 

DAModder does not always do a good job of removing files when uninstalling mods; most often the failure is leaving behind ERF packages in [user]\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\data.

 

(This is one reason I recommend using DAO-ModManager instead, having myself encountered a similar game-breaking issue with the efficacy of DAModder.)

 

I've realised that the module was never meant to be used alongside the main campaign.

 

My problem is that the mod never even installed properly with any mod manager, even DAO-Modmanager so I can't uninstall it because I don't know where it's installed files and it doesn't show up with any program.

 

It may be another mod, but I'm convinced that this module must be the one causing my "single Origin" issue

 

Edit: I did find a .erf file the mod dumped in my X\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\data folder but it didn't solve my issue to delete it. Any advice on where other files might be hiding?

Edited December 27, 2018 by rebelatnight

[theskymoves]

Files from DAzip mods install to [user]\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\AddIns and [user]\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\data... at least I've never encountered one that placed files anywhere else.

Edited December 27, 2018 by theskymoves